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General Statistics, 1942.
No. of live births allocated to the Borough of Croydon 3,471
,, still „ ,, ,, „ 108
No. of maternal deaths (directly due to pregnancy) 8
No. of cases of notified Puerperal Pyrexia 54
No. of expectant mothers who attended the Borough Ante-
Natal Clinics 3,722
No. of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Booked
cases 948
No. of cases delivered in Mayday Hospital as Emergency
cases 232
Total cases delivered in Mayday Hospital 1,180
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
as Booked cases 501
No. of cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
as Emergency cases —
Total cases delivered in St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 501
No. of cases delivered by Municipal midwives 1,153
Total 2,894
No. of cases admitted to the Puerperal Infection Unit,
Borough Hospital and Mayday Hospital Isolation
Wards, including 48 from Mayday Hospital and 0
from St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 72
No. of Maternal deaths in Booked cases from Borough
Ante-Natal Clinics 4
No. of Maternal deaths in Emergency cases at Mayday
Hospital 1*
No. of Maternal deaths in cases admitted as Puerperal
Sepsis per se 0
Total Maternal deaths in beds of the Obstetric Service 5*
(*Exclusive of Abortion)
The total number of patients treated by the Obstetric Service
was:—
(a) In Mayday Hospital 1,718
(b) In St. Mary's Maternity Hospital 561
(c) In the Borough Hospital Puerperal Infection Unit and
Mayday Hospital Isolation Wards, excluding 28 from
(a) and 6 from (b) 18
(d) At the Ante Natal Clinics and delivered outside the above
Hospitals (including Municipal Midwives' cases) 1,336
(e) At the Post-Natal Clinics, excluding those included in
(a), (6), (c) and (d) 507
(/) At ti*e Ante-Natal Clinics and undelivered on December
31st, 1942 778
4,918